Summary
Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, received a 23-month prison sentence for falsely accusing Daniel Pierson of attempted rape and kidnapping in Pennsylvania, leading to his wrongful month-long incarceration.
Urumova pled guilty to seven misdemeanors, including filing false reports and fabricating evidence.
Investigators uncovered her lie after finding inconsistencies in surveillance footage. She admitted she targeted Pierson because she had seen him before.
Alongside jail time, she must pay $3,600 in restitution, undergo a mental health evaluation, and serve probation. Prosecutors warned the false claim damaged public trust and harmed real victims.
23 months and 45 days? Is there any reasoning behind this depiction of the length of the hail time or is this just an error?
The cited source says she was sentenced to “45 days to 23 months” so error
https://www.buckscounty.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1257
Often with non-violent crimes like this, the sentencing is determined formulaically. It’s pretty common for the judge to just go with whatever the legislature-recommend sentencing states. X charge = Y days, and you just add up all the Y’s.
This is a violent crime, restriction of someone’s freedom is a type of violence, but apparently if you get the government to do it for you it stops being violence.
Helps that the system wants to put people so much behind bars that no evidence is needed other than a finger pointing.
He was jailed for a month
In this context, ‘non-violent’ has a technical meaning. So we don’t need to play word games with it. As for putting people behind bars without no evidence, that’s not a thing that happens in rape or kidnapping cases. And in this case, the false accuser in the one going to prison.
Probably just the way multiple sentences easily added up and the writer didn’t bother to convert for consistency. X months for one crime, Y days for that crime, etc.